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Best War Ever Is Still Going On- Jordin Hatcher

Chapter four of “The Best War Ever” is entitled Our Man in Baghdad and delves into many issues surrounding specific people in the war on Iraq. It begins by discussing Ahmed Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress. The authors go into detail on how the INC was instituted and used to gain support for the war and the issues surrounding the Middle East. Many issues surrounded this group, such as defectors, poor bookkeeping skills and dealings with weapons of mass destruction. The chapter also went on about Curveball- a code-named informant- who was in all relative terms, off his rocker. The chapter also focused on discourse surrounding the Judith Miller case.

Chapter five is entitled Rewriting History and delves into the changing mindset, rhetoric, and policy of the Bush administration. The beginning discusses the original arguments of the administration for going to war, and then proceeds to identify the new arguments for staying in the war.

The rest of the chapter goes into depth on these three shifted arguments. The rhetoric that this book is based upon and written in is what really grabs my attention. It is so based in liberal ideology and cemented in the viewpoint that anything and everything dealing with Bush, his administration, the republican party or any level of conservatives are way off in their thinking, and seen as idiots. I’m not saying that I am a staunch republican, I believe now more than ever that we have to find politicians that are tailored to our wants and needs and not base decisions solely on partisan ties, however the one-sidedness is really starting to eat away at me. We are humans you know. We all can be misled, we can make mistakes, but we can also do great things. Allow people the chance to do that. We criticize way to much, and while we must learn from the past, lets not drag the past with us into the future, muddying that along the way as well.